Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Yes, Tyne Daly as “Maria Callas” is the primary reason to see this smashing revival of Terrence McNally’s play Master Class at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Friedman Theatre on Broadw…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:00PMFriday, July 15, 2011
Alberto Casella’s play, as re-written for the American stage by Walter Ferris for the Shuberts of Broadway, produced in 1929, is rarely if ever revived. It is set in 1921 in the palazzo …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:10AMFriday, July 1, 2011
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) continues to make me question that I was valedictorian at PS 139 once in the long ago. I usually leave theatres in which hi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33AMSaturday, June 18, 2011
It pains me to say it, but the new Spidey musical, which finally came to rest at the Foxwood Theatre on 42nd Street after a very tough start, should more aptly be called Spider-Man: Turn off…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:53AMTuesday, June 14, 2011
The Roundabout is offering Donna Murphy to its audiences for a run in a new musical with book and lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart, with music by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler. Ms. Dart is a best …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:01PMThursday, June 9, 2011
A long long time ago (December 5, 1941) a small thriller called Angel Street opened on Broadway, and it had one thing in common with The Motherf**ker With The Hat, in that both plays’ plot…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:26PMWednesday, June 8, 2011
A perfect example of the well-made boulevard comedy of the early twentieth century has been resurrected by Jonathan Bank and his lovely company of players at the Mint Theatre on the third fl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:28AMWednesday, May 25, 2011
I have no argument with the general consensus among the critics I’ve read about Jerusalem, the well intended and occasionally powerful play by Jez Butterworth, which has crossed the Atlant…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AMTuesday, May 24, 2011
Joe Mantello as Ned and John Benjamin Hickey as Felix (Photo: Joan Marcus) The theatre continues to dispense its magic in mysterious ways. Before visiting the current Broadway revival of Lar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:07AMFriday, May 20, 2011
It’s an intriguing title, no? Short and sweet, if a little hard to distinguish among This, Doubt, Proof, Contact et al, and equally difficult to probe for meaning. But early on in the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:38AMThursday, May 19, 2011
It’s always with fear and trepidation that I approach a revival of a classic Broadway hit of the 1940s or 1950s because some of them were head and shoulders above the crowd in their own ti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30AMMonday, May 16, 2011
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the transitional phase that the Broadway musical is currently enjoying, or suffering, depending on your personal viewpoint. It’s not always easy to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:09PMTuesday, May 10, 2011
Lynn Nottage’s Ruined won the Pulitzer Prize and a slew of other honors a couple of seasons ago [and just opened at Arena Stage]. Her Intimate Apparel was also acclaimed in its Roundabout …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:17AMFriday, May 6, 2011
I’m sure you’ve read by now that this original musical by the creators of “South Park” and Avenue Q is the first offering of the New York season to enjoy unanimous raves fr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:52AMMonday, April 11, 2011
I don’t know who first said “let’s make a musical out of the hit movie “Catch Me If You Can”. Let’s assume it was Margo Lion, the producer, Jack O’Brien, the director, or Marc …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AMFriday, April 8, 2011
The very wise Roundabout Theatre management, and the very gifted director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall decided to lift some Cole Porter gems from their sources and plop them down in the m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AMFriday, April 1, 2011
If you’re the sort of theatre goer who enjoys taking old plays off the library shelf, dusting them off, having a look at what went down well in past decades, New York has a grand assortmen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:47AMSunday, March 27, 2011
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lanford Wilson died March 23, 2011, at the age of 73, on the eve the opening night revival of his work Hot l Baltimore at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AMTuesday, March 22, 2011
It’s interesting and informative (and fun) to revisit some of the classical musicals. A new director, new stars, even a new scenic design can alter our memory of it, or allow us to share i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:39PMTuesday, March 15, 2011
A perfect cast in a fine play under the direction of a seasoned professional and usually all will be well. Actually it’s better than “well” at the Samuel J.Friedman Theatre where the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:34AMWednesday, March 2, 2011
Charles Busch as playwright has a most distinctive voice. It is somewhere between Kaufman and Hart, George Abbott, Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, Mel Brooks, Charles Ludlam and S.N.Behrman. His…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:37AMFriday, February 25, 2011
Richard Seff, on vacation, leaves the beach to see the West Side Story touring company The Broward Center of the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale is currently presenting the recent revival …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMFriday, February 11, 2011
Not a very appetizing title, this. Matthew Lopez, the playwright, was unknown to me. “Men of a Certain Age” is the TNT hit TV series in which André Braugher co-stars, yet I di…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:44AMTuesday, February 8, 2011
A.R. Gurney has written over 40 plays and I’ll wager he’s had more use of perhaps 6 characters than any playwright in history. This prolific playwright is in the Alan Ayckbourn/Neil Simo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:22PMSunday, February 6, 2011
This is a tough review to write because this 90 minute one-act musical comes to the York Theatre from a successful run in Texas. It is in the form of a Crosby-Hope “Road” movie, which …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:00PMTuesday, February 1, 2011
As the 21st Century enters its second decade, the plays of a hundred years earlier are attracting the eyes of the artistic directors of a number of New York theatres. Last week we had …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:13AMTuesday, January 25, 2011
The Atlantic Theater Company has enriched us with productions of The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and Spring Awakening, both of which moved on to acclaim on Broadway. For these and other produ…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:51PMMonday, January 17, 2011
2011 struggled to its feet and came up with a winner courtesy of Lincoln Center Theater’s André Bishop and Bernard Gersten, who’d stumbled themselves in recent weeks with Women on the V…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:14PMFriday, January 14, 2011
If you’re looking for a recipe for a successful revival of Oscar Wilde’s 1895 masterpiece, a major ingredient has to be Brian Bedford. This British born Canadian resident is among the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:59AMMonday, December 27, 2010
I knew little about Andrew Jackson, our seventh President, when I entered the Jacobs Theatre on Broadway at an Actors’ Fund Benefit performance this past week. When I left, I knew quite …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AMMonday, December 20, 2010
Driving Miss Daisy is a holiday gift from some seventeen producers (imagine, for a play with 3 actors, 3 costumes and a few set pieces!). It’s a gift because, although the play is a pleasa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:16AM 
